Starting device for explosive-engines.



No. 655,269. Patented Aug; 7, I900.

R. R. VON PALLER.

STARTING DEVICE FOR EXPLUSIVE ENGINES.

(Application filed June 5, 1900.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

ROBERT RITTER VON PALLER, OF NUREMBERG, GERMANY.

STARTING DEVICE FOR EXPLOSlVE-ENGINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 65 5,269, dated August 7, 1900.

Application filed June 5, 1900.

To It, whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT RTTTER VON PALLER, a subject of the Emperor of Austria Hungary, residing at 5 Gellertstrasse, Nuremberg, Germany, have invented Improvements in Starting-Gear for Motor-Oars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a new or improved starting-gear capable of being readily and conveniently actuated from the drivers seat. As compared with other gears designed for a similar purpose and consisting of more or less complicated coupling mechanism this gear differs by the extreme simplicity of its parts and the peculiar manner in which they opcrate. v

This starting-gear is operated by applying against the periphery of a pulley keyed on the driving-shaft of a motor-car a belt hanging loosely when inoperative, and the two ends of which are provided with handles conveniently arranged within reach of the driver, this being effected by depressing, preferably by the foot, a treadle furnished with rollers in such a manner that this driving-pulley, and hence the shaft, may be set in rotation in one direction or in the other, according to the handle which is pulled, while the belt returns to its former loose position as soon as the treadle is released.

The accompanying drawings illustrate in side view the new starting-gear as fitted to a carriage-body.

The driving-pulley S is mounted on the driving-shaft of the motor-car. Above this pulley S the roller 0 is fixed to the frame. Below the said pulley is arranged a lever h, fulcrumed to the base-plate of the carriagebody and having pivoted at one end a bar 70, carrying two rollers free to rotate thereon, while its other end carries a foot-platef. Over the roller 0 and between the pulley S and the rollers m 01 runs the belt or strap 4, which passes between the small guide-pulleys a and 6, extends outside the carriage' body, and is provided at both ends with handles g 9 By depressing the lever hwith the foot and pulling the handle g the bight of the belt or strap 0* is firmly pressed by the rollers 'm n against the peripheryof the pulley S and imparts thereto, and hence to the driving=shaft, a ro- Serial No. 19,132. (No model.)

nipulation being repeateduntil the motor is finally driven by the explosions.

Motors having a reversible gear can be driven backward from the left to the right hand side by pulling the handle 9 instead of the handle g.

I claim- 1. A starting-gear for motor-cars, consist ing of the combination with a pulley on the shaft of the motor, of astrap adjacent thereto, with its ends arranged to be grasped by the operator, and means for pressing the bight of said strap against said pulley.

2. A starting-gear for motor-cars, consisting of the combination with a pulley on the shaft of the motor, of a strap adjacent thereto, with its ends arranged to be grasped by the operator, and a lever arranged to press the bight of said strap against said pulley.

3. A starting-gear for motor-cars, consisting of the combination with a pulley on the shaft of the motor, of a strap adjacent thereto, with its ends arranged to be grasped by the operator, a lever, and a bar pivoted to said lever and carrying rollers adapted to press the bight of said strap against said pulley.

4. A starting-gear for motor-cars, consisting of the combination with the pulley S on the shaft of the motor, of a fixed roller 0 adjacent thereto, a lever it having a footpiece f and carrying a bar provided with rollers m n, and a strap r having handles 9' g and passing between the pulley S and the rollers m n and around the roller 0.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name, this 5th day of May, 1900, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT BITTER VON PALLER.

Witnesses:

PHILIPP ENDERs, OsoAR BOOK. 

